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Susan Wheeler

Susan Wheeler is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Assorted Poems from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and a novel, Record Palace. Her sixth collection, Meme, will be published by the University of Iowa Press in 2012. She teaches at Princeton University.

From "The Split"

Times there were when we
saw love
light rooms so vast it made
us love
ourselves. You in your
lazy
leisure suit, zippered Orlon,
baby
blue, me in my hearts
peignoir
we were a pair! Barely
coming
up for air, smearing up
a storm.
Hand over your tobacco
pouch, your